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Subject: [Leica] Landing Vultures
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:49:42 -0500 (CDT)

Nicely captured Howard. Both very nice.

Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "H&E Cummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
To: lug at leica-users.org
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:44:47 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [Leica] Landing Vultures

Hello again Luggers,
Esther and I shared the jeep with Alastair and Helen when those disgusting 
pictures of the vultures eating the zebra were made.
I am not going to post my set of gourmet dining pictures - Alastair's more 
than adequately tell the story - but I am posting a couple of
pictures of the vultures coming in to land. The zebra feast was like a busy 
airport with the birds lining up to land like big jets coming
into a major airport. One curiosity for me was the way the vultures lowered 
their heads on final approach - like the old Concorde dipping
its nose as it came into land.

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/LandVulturew.jpg.html>

and closer to touch down - you can see the eating action on the zebra in the 
right side of the picture.

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/LndVult2w.jpg.html>

This exercise was a bit of a test of the follow focus capabilities of the XT 
1 equipped with the 55 - 200 zoom.
It did pretty well but there was some wandering in and out of focus as I 
tracked the birds down. Still,
when focus was hit - it was very sharp.

Please look large - C& C always welcome

Howard

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